I was looking at Friedman last night for something else, and I happened to notice that the Des Moines class were considered so revolutionary that they were the only ships for which the CNO, Secretary of the Navy, General Board, and Nimitz all lobbied for additional construction after the end of the war. They wanted a minimum of eight.
They felt they made all other big gun ships and cruisers obsolete.
Of course, Truman had other plans. He was not even sure a navy was necessary any longer.
USS Des Moines to be scrapped in Brownsville
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